Convertible and reversible cultivator.



No. 639,ll6. Patented Dec; l2, I899.

D. G. VUSS.

CONVERTIBLE AND REVERSIBLE GULTIVATOR.

(Application filed Jan. 20, 1899.)

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DlEDERICI-l CONRAD VOSS, OF GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CONVERTIBLE AND REVERSIBLE CULTIVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 639,1 16, dated December 12, 1899.

Application filed January 20, 1899. Serial No. 702,837. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DIEDERIOH CONRAD VOSS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gloucester, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Convertible and Reversible Cultivators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in convertible and reversible cultivators, all of which will be fully described hereinafter and particularly referred to in the claims.

The object of my invention is to provide a convertible and reversible cultivator whereby a single machine is made to perform the functions of anumber of machines, which avoids the necessity of the farmer having a number of machines, and thus reduces the cost to a minimum.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view showing my machine in use as a cultivator. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the machine constructed to travel in the opposite direction and to be used as a furrower or driller. Fig. 4 is a view showing the machine to be drawn in the same direction as that shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and adapted for drawing in and leveling off the furrows after the seeds have been sown therein. Fig. 5 is a detached side elevation of a reversible cultivator-tooth. Fig. 6 is a front view of the scraper.

Referring now to the drawings, A repre sents a central beam, and B two side beams pivoted at one end to one end of the beam A, as shown at C. These two beams B are adapted to be extended or contracted in re lation to the central beam A and are held in theircontracted or extended positions through the medium of the links D. These links D are provided with a plurality of perforations a, through which a bolt 1) passes, the said bolt adapted to pass through an opening in the central beam A. By this means the beams are adapted to be drawn toward or carried away from the central beam A and held in their adjusted position by means of the bolt 1), as will be readily understood. 1

Attached to and removable from the rear end of the central beam in Figs. 1 and 2 are the handles G.

A draft-pole H, of T form, is provided, the arms of the T being provided with a plurality of openings d, adapted to receive the bolts it, which are pivotally connected with the clips 71. These clips 1' are attached to the forward ends of the beams B of Figs. 1 and 2. As the beams B are adjusted in relation to the central beam A the bolts h are changed into the openings cl, to correspond with the adjusted position of the beams, and the distance between the openings d and the openings at of the links D are made to correspondthat is to say, when the beams are adjusted and the bolt 1) is passed through the opening a of the links D the bolts 71 will be in a position to register with corresponding openings (1 in the arms of the T-shaped pole H.

The singletrees J are connected to the ends of the T-shaped pole Him the usual manner.

The beams B are provided with the removable and vertically-adjustable cultivatorteeth K.

When the machine is being used as a cultivator, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, itis drawn by means of the pole H, which serves to prevent the beams 13 from spreadingand also as a means'of drawing the implement by the ends of the beams B, thus making an equal pull upon the beams which are provided with the cultivator-teeth.

' hen the implement is to be used as a furrower, as shown in Fig. 2, the handles G are detached from that end of the central beam A to which the beams 13 are pivoted and are connected with the opposite ends of the central beam A. Moldboards L are then attached to the beams B by means of the vertically-adjustable arms M, and these arms M are at a distance apart upon the moldboards L equal to the distance apart of the openings for the cultivator-teeth, so that they will register with the openings in the beams 13, through which the bolts pass for connecting the cultivator-teeth to the beams B, Figs. 1 and 2. A draft-hook N is attached to the opposite end of the central beam A from the handles G, Fig. 3, and the horses or draftanimal is attached by means of this drafthook N, and a tooth P is attached to the central beam just in front of the ends of the moldboards L. The implement is now ready to be used as a furrower in that the front ends of the moldboards L will practically meet in a point and diverging rearwardly, and thus form a trough or furrow to receive the seed to be planted.

\Vhen it is desired to close up the furrow or trough after the seeds have been placed therein, a scraper Q is put in'the place of the cultivator-tooth P, Fig. 3, and the handles detached and attached to the opposite end of the beam A, as shown in Fig. 4, and the pole H again attached in the same manner as in Figs. 1 and 2, and the machine is then ready for closing the furrow by means of the moldboards L, which have been reversedthat is, placed end for end in respect to Fig. 3-and the scraper Q attached at the rear end of the moldboards L, whereby as the moldboards gather in and close the furrow the scraper Q levels off the top and leaves the ground smooth.

A machine constructed with the attachable and detachable pole and the reversible handles and the reversible moldboards L and the attachable and detachable scraper Q is adapted to serve the purpose of a number of machines, as will be readily understood.

For the purpose of regulating the depth that the cultivator-teeth or the moldboards L shall enter the ground I provide a chain 1*, which has one end connected with the central beam A and its opposite end adapted to be caught in a hook S, carried by the pole H. This affords an adjustable connection for regulating the depth that the cultivator shall run in the ground, as is Well understood by those skilled in the art. This adjustment is effected in that the tightening of the chain will cause a draft upon the under side of the beams, which will tend to lift the front ends of the beams more than where the draft is from the upper side of the-beams, and it is possible to draw the chain so tight that the front teeth will be almost entirely lifted out of the surface.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is-

1. A cultivator comprising a central beam, side beams having their ends attached to said central beam and diverging therefrom, a pole having a cross-bar rigidly secured thereto the ends of the diverging beams being removably attached to the ends of the cross-bar of the pole and a flexible connection between the pole and the central beam, substantially as described.

2. A cultivator com'prisinga central beam, diverging beams hinged to the central beam near one end, a pole having a cross-bar rigidly secured thereto, the free ends of said crossbar being adjustable and detachably secured to the free ends of the diverging beams, substantially as described.

3. In a cultivator the combination with a central beam, two diverging beams pivoted to one end of the central beam, links attached to the diverging beams and having openings to receive a bolt that enters an opening in'the central beam, a draft-pole having a cross-bar rigidly secured thereto, the ends of said bar having openings to receive abolt attached to the diverging beams, said openings to correspond with openings in the links, and a chain connecting the end of the central beam with the draft-pole, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DIEDERIOH CONRAD VOSS.

Witnesses:

FRANK E. SMOTHEN, CYRUS STORY. 

